Konami UNROM has the PRG ROM going up and down as opposed to across the board, which leaves more space for a 32-pin mod. The seven released NES games using this are some (not all) copies of Blades of Steel, Double Dribble, Jack Nicklaus, Life Force, Metal Gear, Silent Service, and Skate or Die. Do these have Nintendo pinout or EPROM pinout?

@Frank:I thought it was Famicom exclusive since I never saw that kind of board yet and don't have all mappers and board layouts in my head. No reason to get rude there. >_>

Yeah, just checked again. It's only USA and Japan releases. I'm in Europe. We don't have those boards. So I'm stuck with shell modding along with other European people who do not want to import USA games just for that to avoid shell modding.

Konami UNROM has the PRG ROM going up and down as opposed to across the board, which leaves more space for a 32-pin mod. The seven released NES games using this are some (not all) copies of Blades of Steel, Double Dribble, Jack Nicklaus, Life Force, Metal Gear, Silent Service, and Skate or Die. Do these have Nintendo pinout or EPROM pinout?

I swear I've found Top Guns like this too, but I don't have any on hand atm. That might be me misremembering. But I want to say bootgood hasn't had all the titles I've found that use Konami boards. They use Nintendo-prg layout for sure though.

sort of interesting side note: some of these carts use a Konami branded chip for chr-ram that only has a single chip enable line instead of /CE1 and CE2 like standard chips.

Do you have a Deadly Towers you want to get rid of? Now you can destroy it to make a 240pee. This repack includes a mapper hack to BNROM, otherwise leaving the program unchanged. And if you have a game that's common but Rare, it's trivial to mod any AxROM board to BNROM: cut the mirroring trace from the 74HC161 and wire it to PA10. Merry Christmas!

0.08.2 (2015-12-25)

Includes a BNROM mapper hack produced by mirroring the fixed bank into the top half of both 32K banks

I think now we have almost complete info about Hybrid PAL Famiclones like "Dendy" / "MicroGenius" / "Subor" / "Pegasus" - hundreds of brands worldwide.So this text on wiki is not relevant for now:

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Because not many people in the English-speaking NESdev community have a Dendy, its precise differences from the authentic Nintendo hardware are not completely understood, and the values above are partly conjecture.

So, all devices that claim to support the PAL must comply with these rules. But we have two operating side: the signal source and the TV itself. TV also must comply with this rules, but only at CVBS input. What we see on the screen is completely depends on TV specific instance. Even if it is to similar models in same batch they can be different (by semiconductor parts, by CRT or something else). Thus, the television itself, and its final adjustment will mainly affect what you see. Since there is many of different kind TVs, TV crew invent Safe Area.

Back to subject. I captured CVBS from UA6538 by high speed ADC (@250MS/s) and build this picture (clickable, huge!):As you can see, it contains at least 3 full frames (fields). Black bar at left side is HSync. Gray level is a black level for picture (any sync must be darker that black). Also you can clearly see VSync between frames. And this picture completely comply with PAL standard.

Conclusion. Your "overscan" test in fact testing TV itself, because UA6538 PPU don't violate PAL standard. And you will get different result from TV to TV. The older will be the TV (or with malfunction), the less Safe Area you will see. I believe that it is fair and for NTSC.

The PAL NES and PAL famiclone pixel clock is the 26.6017125 MHz master clock divided by five. At this rate, 252 pixels would be 252*5/26.6017125 = 47.37 µs, which is less than the 51.95 µs that you quoted. If the PPU didn't crop off the two pixels at far left and right, it'd still be 256*5/26.6017125 = 48.12 µs.

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Back to subject. I captured CVBS from UA6538 by high speed ADC (@250MS/s) and build this picture (clickable, huge!):

Is it OK for us to back that picture up on the wiki for use when testing software PAL decoder implementations?

With this pattern you can discover how much of the picture edge your TV hides.

Historically, CRT TVs have been calibrated to "overscan", or draw the picture slightly past the visible area, in case aging capacitors cause the picture to shrink over time.

One of the TVs that I bought from a thrift shop had so much overscan it made the PowerPak hard to use. In fact, it was very close to the worst case that Nintendo anticipated in its background planning sheets (16 on the sides, 24 on the top and bottom). It's an Apex, and I can dig out the model number if you think you can help me find a means of adjustment.

On PAL, it's mainly to demonstrate that the PPU itself crops 2 pixels off the left and right and 1 scanline off the top.

One of the TVs that I bought from a thrift shop had so much overscan it made the PowerPak hard to use. In fact, it was very close to the worst case that Nintendo anticipated in its background planning sheets (16 on the sides, 24 on the top and bottom). It's an Apex, and I can dig out the model number if you think you can help me find a means of adjustment.

Sure I can try to help you to adjust your TV.

tepples wrote:

On PAL, it's mainly to demonstrate that the PPU itself crops 2 pixels off the left and right and 1 scanline off the top.

Hmm, never knew that. Since TV tuner doesn't have any "overscan" (like also any non CRT TV does) your words is true:So, with BreakNes result I can build PPU clone that will rid off this limitation.

Is it OK for us to back that picture up on the wiki for use when testing software PAL decoder implementations?

Sure.

Thanks. I've uploaded it (and a version downsampled to 53.2 MHz, twice the master clock) as examples for the new article PAL video.

HardWareMan wrote:

tepples wrote:

One of the TVs that I bought from a thrift shop had so much overscan it made the PowerPak hard to use. In fact, it was very close to the worst case that Nintendo anticipated in its background planning sheets (16 on the sides, 24 on the top and bottom). It's an Apex, and I can dig out the model number if you think you can help me find a means of adjustment.

Sure I can try to help you to adjust your TV.

It's an Apex AT2408, which I bought used without a remote. I vaguely remember finding service menu-related information a couple months ago, but it requires the use of a remote.

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